%general-entities; ]> Tar-&tar-version; Tar <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>Bash, Binutils, Bzip2, Coreutils, Diffutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Gzip, Grep, Make, Patch, Sed, and Texinfo</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Tar Apply a patch to fix some issues with the test suite when using GCC-&gcc-version;: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-gcc4_fix-patch; Tar has a bug when the option is used with files larger than 4 GB. The following patch properly fixes this issue: patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-sparse_fix-patch; Prepare Tar for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install Contents of Tar Installed programs rmt and tar Short Descriptions rmt Remotely manipulates a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication connection rmt tar Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives, also known as tarballs tar